How To Build a Website

Is it your dream to build a website? Don’t know how to make a website? Here is the complete solution. You can do it just by following simple 3 steps to building your own dream website! Are you ready? What are you thinking? Let’s do it:

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Step One

Select the platform you want to build a website. Do little research before selecting a site making platform.

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Step Two

Find out a domain name for your site related to your business. Make it relevant and attractive.

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Step Three

Set up your website, select an appropriate theme, customize the design you love and make it attractive.

WHAT YOU NEED

You will need the following before making a website

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This Guide

Follow the Three Steps

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Time

Around 20-45 minutes

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Technical skills

None Required

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Credit Card

To pay for your website

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Money

It will cost you around $60 for your website

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Internet

Good Internet Connection

STEP ONE

Select the platform you want to build a website

A variety of CMS (content management systems) is available online. Firstly, a website platform is to be selected to build your website. Choosing the right platform is the highest priority. You should choose a CMS (content management systems) platform that is perfect for you and your website.

If you are a novice you are also able to build a website on your own website. Making a website nowadays isn’t that difficult. Even the person who doesn’t have much experience with computers can also build a website.

For instance, you have to know how to choose the right website building platform. A dedicated best developer’s team is constantly working on improving WordPress.com

A little bit of HTML / CSS or other coding languages may require knowing for some platforms. So, it’s crucial that you come to a right decision to build your website. For a novice, it’s better to select WordPress platform for your content management.

In 2017 the world’s best choices for websites building platforms are:

1. WordPress,

2. Drupal or

3. Joomla.

Which Platform You Should Use?

World’s most famous websites run on three main content management platforms that are WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.

However, I always choose and also like to recommend WordPress platform for building a website. The reason behind my support for WordPress is; because it’s user friendly. WordPress is an excellent platform for both beginners and professional website developers.

But a lot of other Website Builders are available on the internet to choose from, but WordPress wins for a number of reasons.

1. WordPress Won’t Cost a Single Penny:

The most interesting and great news for you is that WordPress is completely free. You just have to do two things:

a. Select a domain name and purchase it,

b. Need to buy a good Hosting to host your website to go live.

Now you’re up and ready to fly with your www.YourDomainName.com

2. The Best Support to Help You for Your Website:

WordPress Engineers work night and day through live chat, email, support pages, and forums to answer any questions you have. WordPress is blessed with a variety of helpful community of developers who will be happy to help you.

If you get stuck with anything or anywhere with your WordPress website just find some good forums and ask for a solution. You will definitely get your solution with ease and it’s free.

3. User-Friendly for Newbie to Professionals:

The WordPress platform is made in such a way that it’s very easy to use. Just if you know how to use most of the computer’s basic applications like Microsoft programs such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or MS Excel, then it’s possible for you that you already know how to edit contents by your own and you will also be able to publish your content.

One of the most attractive features of WordPress is that it can be easily customized. A variety of both free and paid plugins are available with WordPress. Along with this plugins, you can do almost everything you want.

If you want to build a simple website or a complex e-commerce site with thousands of products, WordPress can handle this with ease.

4. Extremely Powerful Platform:

WordPress is a trusted platform for so many of the top brand websites in the world. This can handle almost every technical element. WordPress is extremely powerful and can be able to run the majority of the websites.

It is also recommended by most of the hosting companies, just for example Bluehost.

5. Responsive & Mobile Friendly:

We are in an age of modern science and science gave us an enormous blessing with technology. So, nowadays almost everybody is viewing websites on their cell phones along with laptops or PCs.

So it is essential to make your site mobile friendly and very responsive so that people can access your website from any device. Most exciting information for you is that the majority of the WordPress themes are built mobile friendly as to keep their customers satisfied.

6. Search engine and SEO friendly:

7. Millions of users:

WordPress says, they welcome over 50,000 new sites every single day which are enormous. From small business to artist portfolio sites, blogs, some of the giant media organizations like TIME and CNN.

Overall, the WordPress.com network welcomes more than 409 million people viewing more than 15.5 billion pages each month. Their users publish about 41.7 million new posts and leave 60.5 million new comments each month.

STEP TWO

Find out a domain name for your site related to your business. Make it relevant and attractive.

Now, if you are ready to create your own website, your website needs an appropriate Domain name and a Host Service to find out online.

So let’s move forward and find out a domain name relevant to your business & appropriate web hosting to start the dream website to get started.

You already know that hosting your website on WordPress.com is completely free. That’s really Excellent News!!! And also, you get a free WordPress domain name for the website.

And the free domain name they give you is basically a sub-domain. At the same time, the free hosting is really slow and looks very unprofessional. So, it will not be able to rank in Google or other search engines and it’s completely bad for your business.

For example, your website name will be something like www.YourDomainName.Wordpress.com (make an Image by fotor)

So the appropriate solution is to make a website with a paid host (For Example BlueHost.com). This way your website will run faster and better compared to any kind of free hosting.

The best part is you will get your own domain name like www.YourDomainName.com, which looks very professional too.

Another reason you should use a paid hosting service for you blog, personal websites or business website, is because most of the time you will also get unlimited email addresses that are assigned to your domain name just like CEO@YourDomainName.com

So you will get everything that you need to build a website under one roof to make it professional.

What is the Cost of Web hosting and a Domain Name?

One again, I recommend you to buy your own hosting and domain name. Normally, a good hosting company costs more or less $3 – $6 per month on an average.

I think it’s cheap enough for each month if you are serious about building own website and your business.

The majority of the websites I built in the last few years, I have used Bluehost for my web hosting and for my client’s websites. I get excellent customer service from Bluehost whenever I face a problem related to hosting.

I always recommend the Bluehost as this company is my first choice. You can get your hosting at a very cheap price just at $3.95 per month.

You will get a FREE DOMAIN NAME when you sign up for their hosting package. It saves so much time because you don’t need to buy a domain from elsewhere.

STEP THREE

Set up your website, select an appropriate theme, customize the design you love and make it attractive.

How to Set Up Your WordPress Website?

The boring part is already done. Now you are in the last step. So, I guess you have purchased a domain name and hosting as I said earlier. Now it’s time to install your website. After that, your website will be live in front of billions of people worldwide.

Let’s move forward and install WordPress. You can install your WordPress in two different ways.

I. Install with 1-click installation or

II. Manual installation.

One-click installation is the easiest way, just like anyone can do it. So I would recommend this if you are completely a beginner.

I. ONE CLICK INSTALLATION:

One click installation is just like it sounds. Only One click is required and you’re done with WordPress installation. To maintain the standard, the majority of the web hosts have the 1-click-installation integrated with their system.

If you are using BlueHost account you’ll find the “1-click-installation” in your account control panel(C-Panel).

If you’re using another web host and haven’t signed up to BlueHost, you will find the “1-click-installation” on the web hosts C-Panel.

Below are the “6 quick steps” you need to follow with the “One-Click Installation” process. This is also similar for all the other web hosting companies.

Step 1: Log in to your own hosting account through Control Panel (C-Panel)

Step 2: Go to your C-Panel of your hosting account

Step 3: Just scroll a little bit you will find “One-Click Installs” and click on it

Step 4: Also find out the “WordPress Logo” and click on it

Step 5: Select the domain where your website you want to install

Check the advance Option (You can set your WordPress User Name & Password)

Check the terms and conditions.

Step 6: Finally, click the “Install Now” button and YES!!! You have completed the installation.

In a moment you will notice that, the webhost show details, which is necessary to access your new WordPress website.

If you need more help with this, I have created an article “6 Quick Steps to Install WordPress with One-Click Installs”; you can check it out too and follow the steps.

II. MANUAL INSTALLATION:

A few web designers or developers like to install WordPress manually to get a custom install of the components according to their preference to build a website.

Another reason for manual installation is the category of web host hosts that don’t have the “1-click-installation” facility. These are generally bad type of web hosts. You should change your web host, if they don’t have “1-click-installation” facility.

However, if you need to install WordPress manually you can do it by following few steps:

STEP 2: Secondly, create a new folder on your computer and unzip WordPress in that folder.

STEP 3: Thirdly, find out the file named as wp-config-sample.php and just change the name of it to: wp-config.php.You need to right click on the file and select the rename option to change the name.

STEP 4: Fourthly, open the wp-config.php with Notepad or Dreamweaver or whatever you feel comfortable with and configure as just like below:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’); – Database name (It’s better to take support your hosting services, if you don’t know it.)

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’); – Your hosting username

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’); – Your hosting password

After completion of the criteria, according to above instruction, just save the file.

STEP 5: After that, Download FileZilla. Then log into your hosting FTP server. The FTP address looks like ftp.YourDomainName.com. To log in you have to use the same username and password that you have created during registration of the hosting service.

STEP 6: Now, find out the file named “index” and just delete it. So, upload all the files from your WordPress folder to your FTP server. Just use the “drag n drop” function in FileZilla.

STEP 7: Finally, you are done. Now, go to the URL: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php.

How to Make Your Dream Website Look Fantastic?

You have already purchased your own domain and hosting. Now at this stage you need to choose a Theme.

Now you almost know how to build a website. You’ve wonderfully setup your WordPress on your server. Now you’re ready to fly with your dream website in the World Wide Web (WWW).

It’s time your website look professional or whatever you want it to be. You have completed all the boring and difficult parts. The few steps are very easy and you will have fun doing to do it. Below links will help you to finish customizing and main your WordPress website: